Irony

"Irony" in Arabic

اِسْتِهْزَاء

istihzāʔ

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

تَعَارُض

taʕāruḍ

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

تَنَافُر

tanāfur

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

تَهَكُّم

tahakkum

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

سُخْرِيَة

suḵriya

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

مُفَارَقَة

mufāraqa

(statement that may mean the opposite of what is written literally)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.